The other day I wrote about moving moderation of comments to IntenseDebate. The move was completed successfully, you can now find both my profile and this blog’s profile page on IntenseDebate: Vlad Zablotskyy on IntenseDebate and Go Beyond MLS on IntenseDebate.

The move went smoothly and it took about 8-10 minutes for IntenseDebate to move 1200+ comments of this blog.

One of IntenseDebate plugin that caught my eye is that you can still use your WordPress’ native comments interface on your blog while allowing the plugin to sync the comments made on your blog to your blog’s profile on intensedebate.com. This can be useful if you would like to test their service without revealing it on your blog.

One downside that unlike Disqus, IntenseDebate does not offer any integration for video commenting. But this does not really affect this blog as I rarely make any videos myself.

I like the performance of IntenseDebate so far, let see what they have to offer in the future.

For good number of months this blog’s comment were managed by Disqus- a useful third party comment management system. It allowed me to moderate comments on multiple blogs from one place- most of that moderation was actually done straight from my e-mail.

After the recent update of WordPress to the latest 2.7 version, thanks to a friend in affiliate marketing, I have decided to also to move the comment moderation on this blog to IntenseDebate.

This is a good and a bad news at the same time. Since I have grown to love Disqus quiet a bit, it is hard to say goodbye, since it truly served me well.

I also have some logistic issues of moving several pages that with comments numbering above 50 comments per post. Some of them were saved as a plain old HTML pages (it is a long story), so I will have to move at least several hundreds of comments manually- one by one. As a result of it, you will most likely to see a splash page that will tell you that my site is temporarily unavailable- this will be done with Maintenance Mode Plugin. I sincerly hope to accomplish the move before Christmas.

On the good note I am looking forward to IntenseDebate. You have to love the name of the plugin, as many of you may remember that on occasions some truly intense debates have taken place on this blog- so the even the name of is befitting. I also think that IntenseDebate will have a great future among WordPress bloggers. IntenseDebate is now owned by Automattic- the company behind WordPress. They of course offer the integration of their system through plugin if your blog is powered by WordPress.

I also would like to assure that if you commented on my blogs in the past, they are saved and will appear in the same place on this blog (plus on the IntenseDebate website) where you left them after the move is over.